About

My studio’s latest project, ONE DAY, is about time.

Though I have less time than I used to to sit and watch the clouds go by, I spend a lot more time thinking about its passing.

My brain tends to look at things in terms of units and my work has always been about collections or cataloging.

Up to this point the subject matter has always been an object of some sort.

Objects such as algae, Twinkies, bicycles and cows.

One day is a departure.

It is not about cataloguing a group of objects but about cataloguing a specific unit of time.

Each day consists of 24 hours.

Each hour, 60 minutes.

Each minute 60 seconds.

That’s 86,400 seconds in a day.

For each execution of ONE DAY, a photograph of one static point in the sky is taken every second for 24 consecutive hours.

Each of these 86,4000 photographs then becomes a pixel in a larger composition.

While ONE DAY is about time, it is also about place.

It’s actually quite geo specific.

A foggy summer day in San Francisco is going to look very different than a hot and humid summer day in New York.

The longest day on the equator looks quite different than the shortest day at a pole.

ONE DAY’s depiction of all 86,400 seconds of a day at once both abstracts the day and reinterprets it.

It’s unique deconstruction of time and place offers us a new perspective.

Ultimately, ONE DAY is a portrait of a day and each is unique.